Clarion 1967-03-16 Vol 41 No 19

Volume XLI—No. 19
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Thursday, March 16, 1967
Campus Expects Covenant Minister
For Deeper Life Week Gatherings
The Reverend Paul P. Fryhling,
pastor of the First Covenant
Church in Minneapolis will be the
chief speaker in the annual Deeper
Life Week to be held from March
20-23. Pastor Fryhling is pastor-ing
the largest covenant church
within the association of the Evan-gelical
Covenant Church of Ameri-ca
with a membership of 1,400.
Born and reared in the Midwest,
Mr. Fryhling received his under-graduate
university training at the
University of North Dakota and
graduated from the North Park
Theological Seminary in 1939.
He has been active in youth
work, having served as chairman
of the National Sunday School
Convention and on numerous na-tional
boards and committees.
Books by Mr. Fryhling include
STEPS TO CRUCIFIXION and PRE-LUDE
TO THE CROSS. His ser-mons
and articles have appeared
in several national periodicals and
in the book 88 EVANGELISTIC
SERMONS (Harper, 1964).
Mr. Fryhling was a delegate to
the recent World Congress on Ev-angelism
held in Berlin Germany.
As announced, his sermon topics
will be: Monday, "Infinite Lent"
Phil. 2:5-8; Tuesday, "The Certain-ty
of a Divine Christ" Mark 9:2-10;
Wednesday, " T h e Unavoidable
Cross" Mark 8:31-33; and Thursday,
"The Great Divide" Matt. 22:41-46.
On Tuesday and Thursday there
will be morning prayer at 7:20 In
the Seminary Chapel. On Wednes-day
evening, there will be a candle-.
light communion service in the
Seminary Chapel at 9:00 P.M. The
pre-seminary club will assist Pas-tor
Glenn and Mr. Loren Crabtree
in the ordinance.
Faces of the Royal Players are framed in the abstract set de
signed by members of the troupe. The Players are bringing a new,
exciting drama into the 'bath robe productions' environment of local
churches.
Royal Players Stage One-Act Plays;
Begin Easter. Break Tour Next Week
Deeper Life Week brings Rev. Paul Fryhling to the Bethel pulpit.
A former college instructor at North Park, Rev. Fryhling has had a wide
ranging ministry.
Chef Evaluates Bethel Cafeteria;
Many Improvements Underfoot
by Jeff Loomis
Nine actors will appear in the
one-act drama of Christian apathy,
"Sacrifice," and a symbolic drama
of salvation, "The Forest" to be
presented throughout the weekend
in the college auditorium by the
Royal Players. Tonight's perfor-mance
and Saturday's begin at 8
p.m., Friday's and Sunday's at 9
p.m.
"Sacrifice," as interpreted by
drama director Dale Rott, points
up the source of "deadism" in
Christianity as the church mem-bership
rather than God. The play
will go with the players when they
tour the Northwest and southern
Canada during Easter break. In-cluded
in the cast are Dale Cope,
Dave Stagg, Debbie Coyle, Gail
Mitchell, Darryl Berg, and Bob Bry-ant.
All play several roles during
the action.
"The Forest" is the latest of
director Rott's own excursions into
playwriting and uses three actors,
Lynn Hansen, Anette Ryding, and
Bruce Shaw to portray its pass and
its symbolical ideas forward to the
audience. The drama will be played
before a special Op Art set de-signed
and created by Lynn.
The set designed for "Sacrifice"
is the product of Curt Courtney,
Bethel sophomore, who works on
technical arrangements for the
play with Mary Ruetten and Mir-iam
Mansilla, costumes; Ruth Mac-hnee,
sound; Lois Moody, publici-ty;
Noreen Toth, props; Dave Bet-ty
Dumse, makeup; and Dave Stagg
and Jill Graham, production man-agers.
Admission for the two produc-tions
is 500 per person this even-ing
and $1.25 for couples and 75C
for singles on each of the three
remaining evenings.
National Tour
On the first national tour in
their recently-purchased, enlarged
traveling van, the Bethel Royal
Players leave a week from today
for a twenty-day tour of the Pa-cific
Northwest and southern Can-ada
which will bring them back
to the campus April 10.
The troupe will cross the Cana-dian
border four times in their
travels. The main touring play is
"Sacrifice," a contemporary cru-cifixion
drama centering its ac-cusatory
finger on today's apathe-tic
pew-holder. Also included for
presentation in some churches is
the dialogue sermon "Sacrifice?
No!" and speech ensemble selec-tions
together with oral interpre-tation.
Included in the touring group
are Dave Stagg, junior from Van-couver,
British Columbia; Darryl
Berg, senior from Tokyo, Japan;
Debbie Coyle, sophomore from
Mundelein, Illinois; Gail Mitchell,
junior from Tacoma, Washington;
Bob Bryant, freshman from Whit-tier,
California; and Dale Cope,
sophomore from Detroit, Michigan.
Director is drama professor Dale
Rott.
The group will give performan-ces
in churches of the Baptist
General Conference and North A-merican
Baptist Churches in four
states and four Canadian provinces.
A highlight performance is sched-uled
for the annual city-wide Good
Friday service at Anaconda, Mon-tana,
to be presented in that town's
Little Theater
The current tour is the most
highly-furnished technically of any
in Royal Players history. The act-ors
will use impressionistic set
pieces designed by students and
stereo sound effects worked out
by Darryl Berg, plus lighting which
has traditionally been utilized.
The Bethel cafeteria, long a nem-isis
to the students populus, may
see some significant improvement
in the near future says Mr. Richard
Walters of the Purchasing Depart-ment.
Mr. Sumner Hood, who served
as chef on a passenger liner for
nine years, has made a study of
production procedure, and has
made some significant recommend,
ations to the school. One of Mr.
Hood's cheif criticisms is the ex-orbinant
amount of waste. He has
attributed this to carelessness and
disrespect on the part of the stu-dents.
He went further to point
out that this was only hurting the
student as the extra cost is reflect-ed
in the board figure.
Mr. Walters stated that as yet
the improvements have not become
evident on the cafeteria line, but
that students will be seeing chang-es
in menu and service by next
semester at least.
The major part of the program
is supported by new purchasing
procedure which it is expected will
save some $5,000 per year. This
saving will be used for among
other things, special feature nights
when attention can be given to
more exotic foods, and appropriate
decoration of the dining area. The
Student Services has suggested that
table cloths be used to help create
a more formal atmosphere. It is
hoped that such special meals can
be served several times a month.
Part of the new scheme will be
a greater economy of manpower.
Kitchen personnel will be given
training to increase the efficiency
of food production. Mr. Walters
stated that in the past administra-tive
personnel were forced to help
in the preparation of meals, and
were given little time to draw up
interesting menus and programs.
It was further stated by Mr. Wal-ters
that on the Student Services
poll conducted last year, com-plaints
about food accounted for
only one quarter of all complaints,
whereas at most school this ac-counts
for over 60% of the total.
He commented that this might
mean students had lost all hope
for improvement.
The Norman Luboff Choir, one of the most exciting organizations
of its kind appeared in an exquisite performance at Norton Fieldhouse
Friday, March 10. The repertoire showed good taste as well as great
versatility .
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the CLARION Thursday, March 16, 1967
by Leonard Sammons
New Delhi
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
was given a new lease on her poli-tical
life when she was chosen
Prime Minister for a second time.
However, it is thought that she will
have to do drastically better or else
not hold on much longer. Conso-lation
for Westerners: V. K. Krish-na
Menon, left-wing cousin of the
late Nehru and former Cabinet
member is not given much of a
chance to regain prestige.
Peking
A lack of triumphant announce-ments
from rebel leaders on the
internal strife of the Chinese reb-els
who have held mainland China
for eighteen years leads one to
think that the rebels under Mao-
Tse-tung are not as victorious a-gainst
counter-rebels as they would
like to be. As they purge each
other, the United States ought to
capitalize on this weakness b u t
Washington seems to decline com-ment
on whether this is being done.
New York
James Meredith withdrew from
his brief candidacy for Congress in
Harlem. The would-have-been Re-publican
opponent to Adam Clayton
Powell from Mississippi apparent-ly
decided his publicity stunt was
over. Meanwhile it is doubted if
perennial skeptic T. Edward Stock-ing
would declare candidacy. Best
bet. Regardless of who if anyone
runs against Rev. Powell, who an-nounced
his intent to go to New
York for a change next Sunday,
Powell will win by a landslide.
Jackson
Mississippi authorities are brac-ing
for a heavy tourist (?) boom in
summer. Although these 'civil
rights' workers are not expected
to be as many this year as they
have been the last two or three
years, Mississippi patience is wear-ing
thin. Also, increased trouble
in Northern and Western cities (e.
g. Chicago and Los Angeles) is
making Southern leaders more im-patient
with impatient Yankees.
They remember with a bitter hum-or
the Jack Paar line that Nor-therners
are prejudiced against
the Southern Whites because they
are prejudiced. But advice to Yan-kees:
Not only are we according
to the Great Commission supposed
Letter:
— —11eCtidettalt4 Eliejeft94— AEI
To Whom it may concern:
This letter may seem to be a
bit irrelevant since the Women's
basketball season is over. But, for
future reference .. . .
The Women's team this year was
surprised, and then disgusted by
the caliber of spectators who were
present at the games. Many of
those attending were there for the
purpose of watching the game, but
there were also many, particularly
boys waiting for men's intramurals
to start, whose cheering (?) was
rude, vulgar and offensive.
Such activity, which was termed
by many of the opposing teams
and the referees as "the worst they
had ever seen", is hardly consis-tant
with the type of testimony
which is a major objective of Beth-el
athletics. It is our desire in the
future that those who were involv-ed
would find another area in
which to make fools of themselves.
The Team
Teacher-Course Critique
Poses Knotty Probleme
The Academic Committee of the Student Senate has re-cently
announced their intention to publish this year a teacher-course
evaluation. As I view the situation such a program, while
possibly beneficial, carries with it a multitude of problems as
well as potentially destructive end results.
A major source of concern deals with the administration
of such a program. Are the persons, responsible for publishing
such a critique responsible enough themselves to handle judi-ciously
such a sensitive topic? Another question concerns mo-tives.
As yet the Academic Committee has given no clear-cut
definition of intent. is the evaluation really a concerted attempt
to improve the quality of education at Bethel or is it an attempt
to keep up with the collegiate trend? Everybody's doing it. Or
might it be just an attempt to put the Academic Committee
on the record as having done something this year.
Another problem area concerns the evaluation itself. The
current theory says that a questionnaire will be circulated.
Fine, but from whence issueth the questionnaire? Is the ques-tionnaire
a valid judge of a course's quality? Further, to whom
will the questionnaire be circulated? If entire classes are not
canvassed the obvious question arises, how does one choose a
representative sample? There is a definite chance for bias to
enter at this point. If questionnaires are answered on a volun-tary
basis, quite obviously a tendency for bias could well ap-pear
in the results.
In the light of the above problems it is my feeling that to
attempt an evaluation this late in the year would be futile. The
organizational groundwork that must be done to effectively
organize such an effort, producing a significant evaluation, can-not
be accomplished now.
Another critical area would be the end results of such an
evaluation. Obviously a number of faculty members would be
hurt by such a critique. And if the evaluation is not valid, this
would be unjustifiable.
Such an evaluation could also result in the resignation of
members of the faculty, some who may be cast in an unfavor-able
light by the evaluation, and some who may be opposed to
the principle of such a critique. Again, this would grossly hin-der
the academic quality of the college rather than strengthen
it.
Another factor must be weighed. Based on the experience
of Hamline students, courses became increasingly harder, not
necessarily better after the publication of their evaluation. If
a course was described as boring, little outside reading, and easy
tests, the quality of instruction did not improve, but more out-side
reading was assigned, and tests became more difficult.
It is also my feeling that should such an evaluation be
effected, it would best be done with the cooperation of the Stu-dent
Academic Committee and the Faculty Academic Policies
Committee. Such cooperation would minimize misunderstanding.
There may be a better way of improving course instruction
at Bethel. For example, teachers could be required to have each
course they teach evaluated either by circulating voluntarily a
prepared course evaluation to all of their students or having
fellow faculty and or department heads sit in on their classes,
or both steps could be effected.
In short, concerning the proposed student initiated faculty-course
evaluation, I reiterate my opening statement. Such a
program, while possibly beneficial carries with it a multitude
of problems as well as potentially destructive end results. I am
opposed under the present circumstances to such a proposal.
John G. Halvorsen
Missions Disparity Raises
Issue Of Basic Honesty
For several years, missions has been a sore spot with
Bethel students. For nebulous reasons there has been a reaction
to either the modus operandi or the principle lying behind cur-rent
missionary endeavor.
It was both interesting and distressing to notice the rank
of students that responded to a recent invitation to missionary
commitment. As I recall this was not the first time that we have
witnessed such a mass response to such an invitation. It is a
semesterly phenomenon.
Contrast this exuberent evidence with the bitter yet smoth-ered
reaction to Missions Week. Or perhaps a look at the pres-ent
student missions offering would be helpful. The World Mis-sions
is languishing because of a stagnant and miniscule mem-bership.
The Prayer Bands are all but lifeless.
It is an understatement to say that there is gross disparity
here. This kind of distonesty strikes at the very heart of
Bethel's spiritual life.
If it is true that all these people who made a commitment
to missions are honest, it is inconceivable, or at least highly
unlikely that there would not be evidence of it on campus. If,
on the other hand, there is no real concern, then these students
are mocking the profound seriousness of Christian commitment.
Essentially they are slaying their integrity on the altar of
emotions and conscience comfort. This kind of cheap integrity
is the very antithesis of discipleship. Its ultimate effect is not
only the deception of others, but it undermines the self respect
(esteem, if you will) that is necessary for a vibrant spiritual
life. Tournier would add that mental illness broods over such
horizons.
Last week's editorial made a plea for a dialectic and pro-gressive
program of student clubs. For those who criticize the
"imperialist, colonialist approach to missions" we would say
rise up, and remake it as you see fit. To the others it should
be said that commitment in itself is nothing; discipleship is the
true thermometer of in-depth commitment. J. P L.
to go into Jerusalem and Judea but
also we are supposed to go into
Samaria (i.e., Mississippi).
Washington
While the Negro Powell was
fighting the House of Represent-atives
for his seat, the White Sen-ator
Dodd was retaining his Sen-ate
seat, even though he revealed
Monday that he had misappropriat-ed
a sum of six figures for his
own personal funds. It appears that
nothing will be done to him, per-haps
because of his ancestral back-ground.
Madison
The Governor of the Sovereign
State of Wisconsin has asked that
the minimum age for drinking in
Wisconsin be raised to 21. This is
very interesting when many States
are attempting to lower the voting
age from 21. If Wisconsin has
found 18 is not a satifactory
drinking age what makes Minneso-ta
(or Iowa or Lester Maddox's
Georgia or any other State for that
matter) think that these people can
vote?
ELECTION NOTICE
Dates have been set for upcoming class elections.
Offices to be filled are President, Vice - presidnt,
Treasurer and Secretary of each of the classes of 1968,
1969, and 1970. There will also be three seats from each
of the classes of 1968 and 1969 in the Student Senate,
and there will be four seats from the class of 1970.
Declarations for these offices will be available from
April 10 at 10:30 a.m. until April 12, at 3:00 p.m. Peti-tions
will be due Monday, April 17 at 3:00 p.m.
Primary elections will be Thursday, April 20, from 12
to 4:00 p.m. Final elections will be held from 12 to 4:00
p.m. on April 27 and 28.
Reminder that the all-school elections are Thursday
and Friday, March 16 and 17. Candidates are:
Senator-at-large (5 seats open)
Kenneth Ray Brown
Wallace Borner
Timothy Gibson
James M. Magnuson
Sheldon DeLuca
Edward Soule
Janet Hurt
Treasurer
Beverly Swenson
Campus Coordinator
William L. "Larry" Day
Vice-president
Roger Johnson
President
James Hammar
Jesse J. Johnson, Jr.
People with questions should contact one of the elec-tion
board members—Tim Gibson (PO 602) , Leonard
Sammons (PO 778) or Tom Stocking (P0 782). Please
do not contact Jim Keim.
To the Editor:
Your recent editorial lamenting
the non-existence of existent cam-pus
organizations and clubs
prompts us to inform you of Iota
Omicron Upsilon.
This fraternal organization, or
perhaps more appropriately disor-ganization,
was accidentally found-ed
in 1966 for the expressed pur-pose
of non purpose. Being com-pletely
unstructured we as an or-ganization
have absolutely n o
claimed purposes, goals, officers
or any other accouterments of
structure. In fact our first three
meetings were cancelled and the
fourth has yet to be scheduled.
Each of the illustrious members
is characterized by a complete lack
of organizational dedication. If
there is anything you want not
done, an IOY member will be glad
to not do it.
It may interest you to know that
poet Allen Tate was made an hon-orary
IOY member in the spring
of 1966 for his spectacular convo-cation
performance for which he
failed to show up.
In all these things we feel we
have stood unreproachable amidst
all those deceptive groups alluded
to in your editorial. We would
Men Disappoint Letter:
Women Athletes Disorganization Signals Its Own
Non-existent Club Roll, Structure
invite anyone interested in joining
IOY to contact any of its members.
This may be a slight problem since
we have neither a list of members
nor means for inducting new mem-bers.
I guess membership is closed
until we get to it then.
Sincerely,
Bernard E. Johnson
J. David Patterson
Allen Tate
P.S. to IOY members: Although
this year's trip to Hawaii was can-celled,
next year's is tentatively
(very) planned for December 8-22.
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Coffee Shop Program
March 18th
10:00 P.M.
Silent flicks limelighting the
late great comedians
Abbott and Costello
Laurel and Hardy
Senate Presidential Candidates, Jess Johnson and Jim Ham-mar,
square off for election duel.
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Bethel Kibbutznik And Archaeologist igook Roittic
Prepare For Summer SPAN Projects Concrete Jungle's Living Hell
Portrayed By Autobiography come, the experience promises
to be unforgettable.
Jonathan will be spending the
summer studying current archeo-logical
excavations in Israel. His
first few weeks in the country will
be spent at the Hebrew University
at Jerusalem conducting research
on archaeology and ancient history.
While in Israel, he also hopes to
visit several archaeological sites to
gain a first-hand appreciation of
the work being carried on.
The highlight of the summer,
however, will be the three weeks
in July and August that he will
spend as a volunteer on the
Archaeological Expedition to Tell
Arad. The tell, which is located
west of the Dead Sea in the
northern Negev, has already
been partially excavated.
Of particular interest to Biblical
scholars is the discovery at Arad
of a temple with a Holy of Holies
and the appearance for the first
time outside of the Biblical record
of the term, "House of Jehovah."
Jonathan's research paper will deal
with a specific topic in ancient
history as it relates to the exca-vation
at Tell Arad.
In addition to the eight weeks
in Israel, Mark a n d Jonathan
plan to travel for several weeks
in Europe and the Middle East.
Leaving the Twin Cities on May
28th, they will spend three weeks
getting to Israel, stopping en
route in France, Switzerland,
Austria, Italy, Egypt, Lebanon,
Syria, and Jordan. Leaving Is-rael
in August, they will stop in
Turkey, Greece and England be-fore
returning home September
1st.
Approximately one-half of the
SPANner's expenses are covered
by a SPAN scholarship. The SPAN-ner
is assisted further by contri-butions
from his own college or
university. Proceeds from Bethel's
annual Koffee Kup game, Friday
March 17, between the Student
Senate and the faculty will go to
the Bethel SPANners.
Although presently experiencing
the winter blasts like all other
Bethelites, Jonathan L. Larson and
Mark Watkins often find their
thoughts carrying them to Israel,
where they'll be carrying out
private study in the dry heat
of the Palestinian summer. While
the actual study projects will
be carried out this summer,
preparations are currently under-way.
For the two students Saturday
is SPAN day. If it isn't Hebrew,
it's Hebrew and SPAN meetings!
The SPAN experience requires
preparation so that the summer's
project will be of maximum value
to the participating students. For
the Israel group, preparation in-cludes
Hebrew lessons and three
thousand pages of readings which
pertain to the country to be visit-ed
and/or which pertain to the
project which is to be undertaken.
Common among all SPAN groups is
the necessity to acquaint oneself
with specific aspects of American
policy and national philosophy.
In addition, each SPANner is
responsible for making h i s
own travel arrangements as well
as the plans for carrying out
his project. Even before the
SPANner has stepped into the
plane for his transatlantic flight
he has learned a great deal about
the country to be visited, his
project area, and his own capaci-ties
and shortcomings.
And what of the summer ex-periences?
Mark will be spending approx-imately
five weeks in a kibbutz in
the northern Galilee region of Is-rael.
While there he will be en-gaged
in a study of aspects of the
community spirit of the kibbutz
society. During this stay he will
endeavor to become immersed in
the life style of the community.
This attempt to become a full
fledged kibbutznik will be in itself
a full time job.
While endeavoring to prepare
himself for his stay in the kib-butz,
by reading material on the
kibbutz social structures and life
style, Mark is anticipating pos-sible
problems. Strangeness in
the areas of community struc-ture,
personal life philosophies,
life styles and language must be
confronted. Whatever the out-by
Art Blessing
MANCHILD IN THE PROMISED LAND by
Claude Brown, published by the Macmillan,
Co., 1965, 415 pp.; $5.95, (also available in
paperback—NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY, 95c)
MANCHILD IN THE PROMISED
LAND is the most astonishing and
frightening autobiography I have
ever read. The author, Claude
Brown, now in his late twenties,
grew up in the concrete jungle of
New York's Harlem. In vivid,
shocking terms he describes the
living hell which he endured
throughout his childhood and ado-lescent
years.
F o r those of us unaquainted
with ghetto life, the story unfolds
in a manner charged with horror,
shock, and disbelief—that human
beings can survive in an atmo-sphere
such as this. We receive a
first-hand account of street gang
life from childhood through to the
adult years.
Claude Brown was a member of
the Harlem Buccaneers at nine
years of age, busily engaged in
fighting and stealing. The next
year he had his first sexual inter-course.
At eleven he was sent to
Wiltwyck School for "emotionally
disturbed and deprived" boys for
two years. At thirteen he received
a bullet wound in an attempted
theft. At fourteen he was sent to
Warwick Reform School for the
first of three long stays.
"Pot" (marijuana) became his
favorite smoke. He became a very
successful narcotics "pusher," and
eventually suffered the anguish of
seeing his own brother, "Pimp"
(his real name) become enslaved
to "H" (heroin).
Future social workers, youth
workers, and ministers will gain
valuable insight into ghetto life
and many other social problems
from this book. The problems of
Negro self-hatred and the socially-conditioned
inferiority complex are
also revealed in this account.
The book's dust jacket states
that "the real hero of this book is
Harlem. No other book has so
forcefully and honestly document-ed
life in Harlem .. . has so rich-ly
and candidly portrayed the in-credibly
complex society of this
physical and spiritual ghetto: the
children, young people, hardwork-ing
parents, the hustlers, drug run-ners,
prostitutes, and numbers run-ners;
the police, the action—sights,
sounds, rhythms—of the street; the
violence, sex, humor, the language
of people outside the law and legi-timate
society. And throughout this
all, how it was for a black boy to
come up on these streets, to keep
landing on his feet, to become a
man—and, above all, to keep his
sanity, his dignity, his humanity."
In one sense this story has a
happy ending, for Brown graduated
from Howard University in 1965
and went on to law school. A few
compassionate and understanding
people, a few kind words, and a
few encouraging nudges helped
him to rise above self-hatred and
to break away from some of his
environmental chains.
I highly recommend this book to
all. with the qualification that you
do not begin it shortly before an
exam or paper is due — I recently
loaned my copy to a friend who
stayed up most of the night to
finish it.
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Having run the gamut of collegiate athletics for nearly
a semester and a half, perhaps a diversion in subject matter
would be refreshing. Cleveland Grant's films on Alaska and
Africa, shown here Tuesday, suggest a topic worthy if provid-ing
such diversion.
Jon Larson, Clarion editor, grew up in Assam, Asia's
"Little Africa," a veritable haven for abundant wildlife of
all kinds. Hunting in both the thick growth and burned out
clearings of tropical grassland, Jon has pitted wits with a
variety of big game animals. He has killed a 600 pound sambar
(a huge Asian deer) and hunted wild pig and elephant. None can
compare with the tiger hunt, however.
It would be a mistake to compare this type of tiger hunt-ing
with that practiced by "big game" hunters who often have
to do nothing but shoot the game. This method may produce
trophies but cannot produce the thrill of a real tiger hunt.
There is a real art involved in hunting the big cats.
Word reached the mission outpost of a tiger kill, a domestic
water buffalo, some twelve or thirteen miles distant. Jon and
his father, after erecting a blind in the elephant grass stationed
themselves on the platform with their rifles. Men and cattle
retreated to the villages as the sun began to set.
With the coming of night, the birds became quite and a
very intensive silence hung over the jungle. The insidious sound
of rats chewing on grass roots along with other night sounds,
built excitement. Soon after sunset they heard the big cat
crashing through the thick growth in the distance. Then, about
200 yards away, it stopped and all was quiet once again.
This was a crucial period as the slightest noise or move-ment
would probably frighten the wary tiger away from the
kill. After what seemed like an eternity, the tiger moved
straight in to his kill. They waited until they heard the tiger be-gin
his violent crunching on the dead buffalo. Then Dana Lar-son
turned the light on the tiger, and both fired simultaneously.
The beast roared, wheeled and ran into the jungle.
In the morning both Larsons, accompanied by 15 or 20
wary natives, began tracking the tiger. They found where it
had lost large quantities of blood, and tracked it into a thicket.
Scared up, the tiger ran almost another mile before it died
from loss of blood.
The nine foot skin graced the interior of the CLARION of-fice
for several weeks and provoked numerous discussions on
the techniques of tiger hunting.
The number of students responding to the invitation of
Monday's chapel speaker undoubtedly makes this account from
the Assam Mission field directly relevant to many of the
Bethel students reading this column. Perhaps this account can
be of practical significance to them.
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by Tom Stocking
Ten letter winners from last
year's very successful squad, and a
host of promising newcomers com-prise
Coach Gene Glader's 1967
track team. Coach Glader predicts
that this team should be better than
last year's N.A.I.A. District 13 run-ner-
up, but warns that the com-petition
will be improved, espec-ially
since the M.I.A.C. schools
have abandoned spring football
practice.
Important events on this year's
schedule are the Easter Vacation
tour of Kansas and Iowa, the Carle-ton
Relays, the Bethel Relays, the
Bethel Invitational, the Macalester
Invitational, and the Northland
Invitational. During the vacation
trip Bethel will have four meets,
one of which is against Bethel of
Newton, Kansas. This year's Bethel
Relays field is made up of the
Bethel will, again this year be
represented by a small but deter-mined
group of golfers. Golf is a
sport which has been somewhat
unstable in past years but this year
the team is looking forward to a
good season with a new coach,
three returning junior lettermen,
three returning sophomores and at
least one new player.
The team is privileged to have
Mr. J. Daniel Baumann from the
seminary as coach this year. Mr.
Baumann was captain of his col-lege
team at Wheaton in his senior
year there and has shown a real
interest in the team this year at
Bethel. As a team we look forward
to working and playing with him.
Dave Livingston, Rick Peterson,
and Jim Spurgeon return as juniors
this year to form the nucleus of
the team. Dave is probably the
longest hitter in the group and has
the ability to score well. Rick, al-though
somewhat unorthodox in
form, is a good consistent player.
Jim is somewhat erratic at times
by Wally Borner
Frankson and 2nd New con-tinued
their winning ways by tak-ing
3rd Old 64-40, and Phelps 67-
58, respectively. Balanced scoring
was the order for the day with
Frankson's Doug Carlson adding
19 points. Dave C. Anderson was
high gunner for 3rd Old with 12.
Dale Saxon and Vaughn Ekbom
pumped in 16 a piece for 2nd New
as they pulled out a seesaw battle
with Phelps. Tom Hulst and John
Carmean each sunk 22 in the los-ing
cause.
After a close first half, Pit pul-led
ahead to take 1st floor 62-46.
Craig Carmean hit 17 to lead Pit
scoring. Dave Pearson muffed a
free throw in the waning minutes
to remain the only Pit man out
of double figures. Jon Christian
and Dick Schultz paced the 1st
floor with 11. Jon Krause and Hal
Shaver hit 22 and 19 to lead As-bury
over 3rd New 64-54. Tim Dan-iels
added 24 points to raise his
season average for 3rd New to 18.
"B" League action was a con-trast
from exciting forfeits to a
one point win. Pit won three games
by accepting a forfeit from Asbury,
topping 1st floor 37-27, and tip-ping
3rd New 51-50. It was another
bloody game for Edgren's top
Thursday, March 16, 1967
same M.I.A.C. schools, Augsburg,
Concordia, Gustavus, Hamline, and
St. John's, that the Royals defeated
in last season's Relays.
Last year's sprinters, Jim Ham-mar,
Oliver Skurdahl, and Dave
Moss all return, and the presence
of Dave Pound adds more strength
to the group. Co-captain Dave Dahl-berg
is the leading returning 440
yard dash man with 52.05 to his
credit last year. Hammar, last
year's top point getter and most
valuable man, turned in the best
100 yard dash with a 10 flat, and
Moss the leading the 220 at 22.6.
No letter winner will return in
the half mile, but Edgar Peterman,
Ron Stone, Barry Garrison, Ron
Berggren, and Ron Stoez are all ca-pable
runners. Cross country stars
Steve Johnson, Dick Olson, a n d
Wally Borner are the leading can-didates
in the one and two mile.
but has played some good rounds.
These three are all quite closely
matched in scoring ability.
Dave Anderson, a sophomore will
also be back again this year. Dave
did have some putting trouble last
year but was a real asset to the
team. Cal Harfst is the only re-turning
lefthander but scores well
from that side. Jerry Loomis, an-other
sophomore completes a good
list of returnees. John Raske, a
senior will be out for the first
time this year but should make a
real contribution to the team.
The schedule is not quite com-plete
as of this time, but it is
hoped that 8-10 matches and tour-naments
can be scheduled. Any
students who would be interested
in coming out should contact Jim
Spurgeon, P.O. 378, Mr. Bauman,
or any of the members named a-bove.
We hope to be out soon
after Spring vacation and would
welcome any freshman or upper-classmen
who would like to play.
flight boys, but this time it was
Larry Peterson who was clawed by
Pit star Leonard Sammons, instead
of yours truly, who finished the
previous game looking like Henry
Cooper. Peterson led scoring with
20 and Tom Blomstrand had 18
for the Basement boys.
Phelps dropped two games, the
first with only four men to 3rd
Old 50-43. Mary Johnson had 21
points and Gaylord Anderson luck-ed
out with 15 for the winners.
The second game saw them losing
to 2nd New by a score of 70-59.
Rog Kingsley's 18 first half points
kept them in the ball game but
they eventually succumbed to the
power of Gary Hasselblad and Jim
Lindberg who scored 32 and 25
points. Lynn Bergfalk again came
up with a good performance and
scored 23 for Phelps.
Frakson and Asbury lead the
league in forfeits. Each gave a
game to 3rd New and Frankson al-so
forfeited to 3rd Old.
In the "A" League, the faculty
is running away with forfeit hon-ors,
rarely having anyone brave
enough to show up. The Seminary
had the week off, but have been
disproving Dr. Jim Johnson's the-ory
that nice guys never win. The
Sem is having a losing season.
Olson once did a 4.31 mile in High
School which is just 9.7 seconds
off of the Bethel record.
The dynamic duo of the hurdles,
Andy Lehman and Bill Malyon,
both return, and a third splendid
hurdler, Craig Peterson, could
make this the team's strongest ev-ent.
Coach Glader anticipates that
the added competition will spur
the hurdlers on to increased record
breaking.
The field events are strong again
this year. Hammar, who holds the
record in both events, returns in
the broad jump and triple jump.
Sophomore Dave Pearson, who set
a new mark with a 6 foot leap
last year, holds forth in the high
jump, and is ably backed up by
Larry Peterson. Ron Pederson,
Marvin Johnson, and Fred Swed-berg
when his ankle heals make
up a talented weight corps, and
Bob McDonald, the javelin record
holder is back again. Co-captain
Ron Bergman hopes to improve on
last year's record 13 foot pole
vault, and freshman Bob Olsen is
developing into a promising pole
vaulter, broad jumper, and shot
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Returnees Bolster Golf Outlook;
Practice Begins After Vacation
Frankson Holds 1st In I-M Action,
Forfiets Plague 13' League Play
Tracksters Open Promising Season;
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Volume XLI—No. 19
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Thursday, March 16, 1967
Campus Expects Covenant Minister
For Deeper Life Week Gatherings
The Reverend Paul P. Fryhling,
pastor of the First Covenant
Church in Minneapolis will be the
chief speaker in the annual Deeper
Life Week to be held from March
20-23. Pastor Fryhling is pastor-ing
the largest covenant church
within the association of the Evan-gelical
Covenant Church of Ameri-ca
with a membership of 1,400.
Born and reared in the Midwest,
Mr. Fryhling received his under-graduate
university training at the
University of North Dakota and
graduated from the North Park
Theological Seminary in 1939.
He has been active in youth
work, having served as chairman
of the National Sunday School
Convention and on numerous na-tional
boards and committees.
Books by Mr. Fryhling include
STEPS TO CRUCIFIXION and PRE-LUDE
TO THE CROSS. His ser-mons
and articles have appeared
in several national periodicals and
in the book 88 EVANGELISTIC
SERMONS (Harper, 1964).
Mr. Fryhling was a delegate to
the recent World Congress on Ev-angelism
held in Berlin Germany.
As announced, his sermon topics
will be: Monday, "Infinite Lent"
Phil. 2:5-8; Tuesday, "The Certain-ty
of a Divine Christ" Mark 9:2-10;
Wednesday, " T h e Unavoidable
Cross" Mark 8:31-33; and Thursday,
"The Great Divide" Matt. 22:41-46.
On Tuesday and Thursday there
will be morning prayer at 7:20 In
the Seminary Chapel. On Wednes-day
evening, there will be a candle-.
light communion service in the
Seminary Chapel at 9:00 P.M. The
pre-seminary club will assist Pas-tor
Glenn and Mr. Loren Crabtree
in the ordinance.
Faces of the Royal Players are framed in the abstract set de
signed by members of the troupe. The Players are bringing a new,
exciting drama into the 'bath robe productions' environment of local
churches.
Royal Players Stage One-Act Plays;
Begin Easter. Break Tour Next Week
Deeper Life Week brings Rev. Paul Fryhling to the Bethel pulpit.
A former college instructor at North Park, Rev. Fryhling has had a wide
ranging ministry.
Chef Evaluates Bethel Cafeteria;
Many Improvements Underfoot
by Jeff Loomis
Nine actors will appear in the
one-act drama of Christian apathy,
"Sacrifice," and a symbolic drama
of salvation, "The Forest" to be
presented throughout the weekend
in the college auditorium by the
Royal Players. Tonight's perfor-mance
and Saturday's begin at 8
p.m., Friday's and Sunday's at 9
p.m.
"Sacrifice," as interpreted by
drama director Dale Rott, points
up the source of "deadism" in
Christianity as the church mem-bership
rather than God. The play
will go with the players when they
tour the Northwest and southern
Canada during Easter break. In-cluded
in the cast are Dale Cope,
Dave Stagg, Debbie Coyle, Gail
Mitchell, Darryl Berg, and Bob Bry-ant.
All play several roles during
the action.
"The Forest" is the latest of
director Rott's own excursions into
playwriting and uses three actors,
Lynn Hansen, Anette Ryding, and
Bruce Shaw to portray its pass and
its symbolical ideas forward to the
audience. The drama will be played
before a special Op Art set de-signed
and created by Lynn.
The set designed for "Sacrifice"
is the product of Curt Courtney,
Bethel sophomore, who works on
technical arrangements for the
play with Mary Ruetten and Mir-iam
Mansilla, costumes; Ruth Mac-hnee,
sound; Lois Moody, publici-ty;
Noreen Toth, props; Dave Bet-ty
Dumse, makeup; and Dave Stagg
and Jill Graham, production man-agers.
Admission for the two produc-tions
is 500 per person this even-ing
and $1.25 for couples and 75C
for singles on each of the three
remaining evenings.
National Tour
On the first national tour in
their recently-purchased, enlarged
traveling van, the Bethel Royal
Players leave a week from today
for a twenty-day tour of the Pa-cific
Northwest and southern Can-ada
which will bring them back
to the campus April 10.
The troupe will cross the Cana-dian
border four times in their
travels. The main touring play is
"Sacrifice," a contemporary cru-cifixion
drama centering its ac-cusatory
finger on today's apathe-tic
pew-holder. Also included for
presentation in some churches is
the dialogue sermon "Sacrifice?
No!" and speech ensemble selec-tions
together with oral interpre-tation.
Included in the touring group
are Dave Stagg, junior from Van-couver,
British Columbia; Darryl
Berg, senior from Tokyo, Japan;
Debbie Coyle, sophomore from
Mundelein, Illinois; Gail Mitchell,
junior from Tacoma, Washington;
Bob Bryant, freshman from Whit-tier,
California; and Dale Cope,
sophomore from Detroit, Michigan.
Director is drama professor Dale
Rott.
The group will give performan-ces
in churches of the Baptist
General Conference and North A-merican
Baptist Churches in four
states and four Canadian provinces.
A highlight performance is sched-uled
for the annual city-wide Good
Friday service at Anaconda, Mon-tana,
to be presented in that town's
Little Theater
The current tour is the most
highly-furnished technically of any
in Royal Players history. The act-ors
will use impressionistic set
pieces designed by students and
stereo sound effects worked out
by Darryl Berg, plus lighting which
has traditionally been utilized.
The Bethel cafeteria, long a nem-isis
to the students populus, may
see some significant improvement
in the near future says Mr. Richard
Walters of the Purchasing Depart-ment.
Mr. Sumner Hood, who served
as chef on a passenger liner for
nine years, has made a study of
production procedure, and has
made some significant recommend,
ations to the school. One of Mr.
Hood's cheif criticisms is the ex-orbinant
amount of waste. He has
attributed this to carelessness and
disrespect on the part of the stu-dents.
He went further to point
out that this was only hurting the
student as the extra cost is reflect-ed
in the board figure.
Mr. Walters stated that as yet
the improvements have not become
evident on the cafeteria line, but
that students will be seeing chang-es
in menu and service by next
semester at least.
The major part of the program
is supported by new purchasing
procedure which it is expected will
save some $5,000 per year. This
saving will be used for among
other things, special feature nights
when attention can be given to
more exotic foods, and appropriate
decoration of the dining area. The
Student Services has suggested that
table cloths be used to help create
a more formal atmosphere. It is
hoped that such special meals can
be served several times a month.
Part of the new scheme will be
a greater economy of manpower.
Kitchen personnel will be given
training to increase the efficiency
of food production. Mr. Walters
stated that in the past administra-tive
personnel were forced to help
in the preparation of meals, and
were given little time to draw up
interesting menus and programs.
It was further stated by Mr. Wal-ters
that on the Student Services
poll conducted last year, com-plaints
about food accounted for
only one quarter of all complaints,
whereas at most school this ac-counts
for over 60% of the total.
He commented that this might
mean students had lost all hope
for improvement.
The Norman Luboff Choir, one of the most exciting organizations
of its kind appeared in an exquisite performance at Norton Fieldhouse
Friday, March 10. The repertoire showed good taste as well as great
versatility .
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the CLARION Thursday, March 16, 1967
by Leonard Sammons
New Delhi
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
was given a new lease on her poli-tical
life when she was chosen
Prime Minister for a second time.
However, it is thought that she will
have to do drastically better or else
not hold on much longer. Conso-lation
for Westerners: V. K. Krish-na
Menon, left-wing cousin of the
late Nehru and former Cabinet
member is not given much of a
chance to regain prestige.
Peking
A lack of triumphant announce-ments
from rebel leaders on the
internal strife of the Chinese reb-els
who have held mainland China
for eighteen years leads one to
think that the rebels under Mao-
Tse-tung are not as victorious a-gainst
counter-rebels as they would
like to be. As they purge each
other, the United States ought to
capitalize on this weakness b u t
Washington seems to decline com-ment
on whether this is being done.
New York
James Meredith withdrew from
his brief candidacy for Congress in
Harlem. The would-have-been Re-publican
opponent to Adam Clayton
Powell from Mississippi apparent-ly
decided his publicity stunt was
over. Meanwhile it is doubted if
perennial skeptic T. Edward Stock-ing
would declare candidacy. Best
bet. Regardless of who if anyone
runs against Rev. Powell, who an-nounced
his intent to go to New
York for a change next Sunday,
Powell will win by a landslide.
Jackson
Mississippi authorities are brac-ing
for a heavy tourist (?) boom in
summer. Although these 'civil
rights' workers are not expected
to be as many this year as they
have been the last two or three
years, Mississippi patience is wear-ing
thin. Also, increased trouble
in Northern and Western cities (e.
g. Chicago and Los Angeles) is
making Southern leaders more im-patient
with impatient Yankees.
They remember with a bitter hum-or
the Jack Paar line that Nor-therners
are prejudiced against
the Southern Whites because they
are prejudiced. But advice to Yan-kees:
Not only are we according
to the Great Commission supposed
Letter:
— —11eCtidettalt4 Eliejeft94— AEI
To Whom it may concern:
This letter may seem to be a
bit irrelevant since the Women's
basketball season is over. But, for
future reference .. . .
The Women's team this year was
surprised, and then disgusted by
the caliber of spectators who were
present at the games. Many of
those attending were there for the
purpose of watching the game, but
there were also many, particularly
boys waiting for men's intramurals
to start, whose cheering (?) was
rude, vulgar and offensive.
Such activity, which was termed
by many of the opposing teams
and the referees as "the worst they
had ever seen", is hardly consis-tant
with the type of testimony
which is a major objective of Beth-el
athletics. It is our desire in the
future that those who were involv-ed
would find another area in
which to make fools of themselves.
The Team
Teacher-Course Critique
Poses Knotty Probleme
The Academic Committee of the Student Senate has re-cently
announced their intention to publish this year a teacher-course
evaluation. As I view the situation such a program, while
possibly beneficial, carries with it a multitude of problems as
well as potentially destructive end results.
A major source of concern deals with the administration
of such a program. Are the persons, responsible for publishing
such a critique responsible enough themselves to handle judi-ciously
such a sensitive topic? Another question concerns mo-tives.
As yet the Academic Committee has given no clear-cut
definition of intent. is the evaluation really a concerted attempt
to improve the quality of education at Bethel or is it an attempt
to keep up with the collegiate trend? Everybody's doing it. Or
might it be just an attempt to put the Academic Committee
on the record as having done something this year.
Another problem area concerns the evaluation itself. The
current theory says that a questionnaire will be circulated.
Fine, but from whence issueth the questionnaire? Is the ques-tionnaire
a valid judge of a course's quality? Further, to whom
will the questionnaire be circulated? If entire classes are not
canvassed the obvious question arises, how does one choose a
representative sample? There is a definite chance for bias to
enter at this point. If questionnaires are answered on a volun-tary
basis, quite obviously a tendency for bias could well ap-pear
in the results.
In the light of the above problems it is my feeling that to
attempt an evaluation this late in the year would be futile. The
organizational groundwork that must be done to effectively
organize such an effort, producing a significant evaluation, can-not
be accomplished now.
Another critical area would be the end results of such an
evaluation. Obviously a number of faculty members would be
hurt by such a critique. And if the evaluation is not valid, this
would be unjustifiable.
Such an evaluation could also result in the resignation of
members of the faculty, some who may be cast in an unfavor-able
light by the evaluation, and some who may be opposed to
the principle of such a critique. Again, this would grossly hin-der
the academic quality of the college rather than strengthen
it.
Another factor must be weighed. Based on the experience
of Hamline students, courses became increasingly harder, not
necessarily better after the publication of their evaluation. If
a course was described as boring, little outside reading, and easy
tests, the quality of instruction did not improve, but more out-side
reading was assigned, and tests became more difficult.
It is also my feeling that should such an evaluation be
effected, it would best be done with the cooperation of the Stu-dent
Academic Committee and the Faculty Academic Policies
Committee. Such cooperation would minimize misunderstanding.
There may be a better way of improving course instruction
at Bethel. For example, teachers could be required to have each
course they teach evaluated either by circulating voluntarily a
prepared course evaluation to all of their students or having
fellow faculty and or department heads sit in on their classes,
or both steps could be effected.
In short, concerning the proposed student initiated faculty-course
evaluation, I reiterate my opening statement. Such a
program, while possibly beneficial carries with it a multitude
of problems as well as potentially destructive end results. I am
opposed under the present circumstances to such a proposal.
John G. Halvorsen
Missions Disparity Raises
Issue Of Basic Honesty
For several years, missions has been a sore spot with
Bethel students. For nebulous reasons there has been a reaction
to either the modus operandi or the principle lying behind cur-rent
missionary endeavor.
It was both interesting and distressing to notice the rank
of students that responded to a recent invitation to missionary
commitment. As I recall this was not the first time that we have
witnessed such a mass response to such an invitation. It is a
semesterly phenomenon.
Contrast this exuberent evidence with the bitter yet smoth-ered
reaction to Missions Week. Or perhaps a look at the pres-ent
student missions offering would be helpful. The World Mis-sions
is languishing because of a stagnant and miniscule mem-bership.
The Prayer Bands are all but lifeless.
It is an understatement to say that there is gross disparity
here. This kind of distonesty strikes at the very heart of
Bethel's spiritual life.
If it is true that all these people who made a commitment
to missions are honest, it is inconceivable, or at least highly
unlikely that there would not be evidence of it on campus. If,
on the other hand, there is no real concern, then these students
are mocking the profound seriousness of Christian commitment.
Essentially they are slaying their integrity on the altar of
emotions and conscience comfort. This kind of cheap integrity
is the very antithesis of discipleship. Its ultimate effect is not
only the deception of others, but it undermines the self respect
(esteem, if you will) that is necessary for a vibrant spiritual
life. Tournier would add that mental illness broods over such
horizons.
Last week's editorial made a plea for a dialectic and pro-gressive
program of student clubs. For those who criticize the
"imperialist, colonialist approach to missions" we would say
rise up, and remake it as you see fit. To the others it should
be said that commitment in itself is nothing; discipleship is the
true thermometer of in-depth commitment. J. P L.
to go into Jerusalem and Judea but
also we are supposed to go into
Samaria (i.e., Mississippi).
Washington
While the Negro Powell was
fighting the House of Represent-atives
for his seat, the White Sen-ator
Dodd was retaining his Sen-ate
seat, even though he revealed
Monday that he had misappropriat-ed
a sum of six figures for his
own personal funds. It appears that
nothing will be done to him, per-haps
because of his ancestral back-ground.
Madison
The Governor of the Sovereign
State of Wisconsin has asked that
the minimum age for drinking in
Wisconsin be raised to 21. This is
very interesting when many States
are attempting to lower the voting
age from 21. If Wisconsin has
found 18 is not a satifactory
drinking age what makes Minneso-ta
(or Iowa or Lester Maddox's
Georgia or any other State for that
matter) think that these people can
vote?
ELECTION NOTICE
Dates have been set for upcoming class elections.
Offices to be filled are President, Vice - presidnt,
Treasurer and Secretary of each of the classes of 1968,
1969, and 1970. There will also be three seats from each
of the classes of 1968 and 1969 in the Student Senate,
and there will be four seats from the class of 1970.
Declarations for these offices will be available from
April 10 at 10:30 a.m. until April 12, at 3:00 p.m. Peti-tions
will be due Monday, April 17 at 3:00 p.m.
Primary elections will be Thursday, April 20, from 12
to 4:00 p.m. Final elections will be held from 12 to 4:00
p.m. on April 27 and 28.
Reminder that the all-school elections are Thursday
and Friday, March 16 and 17. Candidates are:
Senator-at-large (5 seats open)
Kenneth Ray Brown
Wallace Borner
Timothy Gibson
James M. Magnuson
Sheldon DeLuca
Edward Soule
Janet Hurt
Treasurer
Beverly Swenson
Campus Coordinator
William L. "Larry" Day
Vice-president
Roger Johnson
President
James Hammar
Jesse J. Johnson, Jr.
People with questions should contact one of the elec-tion
board members—Tim Gibson (PO 602) , Leonard
Sammons (PO 778) or Tom Stocking (P0 782). Please
do not contact Jim Keim.
To the Editor:
Your recent editorial lamenting
the non-existence of existent cam-pus
organizations and clubs
prompts us to inform you of Iota
Omicron Upsilon.
This fraternal organization, or
perhaps more appropriately disor-ganization,
was accidentally found-ed
in 1966 for the expressed pur-pose
of non purpose. Being com-pletely
unstructured we as an or-ganization
have absolutely n o
claimed purposes, goals, officers
or any other accouterments of
structure. In fact our first three
meetings were cancelled and the
fourth has yet to be scheduled.
Each of the illustrious members
is characterized by a complete lack
of organizational dedication. If
there is anything you want not
done, an IOY member will be glad
to not do it.
It may interest you to know that
poet Allen Tate was made an hon-orary
IOY member in the spring
of 1966 for his spectacular convo-cation
performance for which he
failed to show up.
In all these things we feel we
have stood unreproachable amidst
all those deceptive groups alluded
to in your editorial. We would
Men Disappoint Letter:
Women Athletes Disorganization Signals Its Own
Non-existent Club Roll, Structure
invite anyone interested in joining
IOY to contact any of its members.
This may be a slight problem since
we have neither a list of members
nor means for inducting new mem-bers.
I guess membership is closed
until we get to it then.
Sincerely,
Bernard E. Johnson
J. David Patterson
Allen Tate
P.S. to IOY members: Although
this year's trip to Hawaii was can-celled,
next year's is tentatively
(very) planned for December 8-22.
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Opinions expressed in the CLARION do not
necessarily reflect the position of the college
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March 18th
10:00 P.M.
Silent flicks limelighting the
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Abbott and Costello
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Senate Presidential Candidates, Jess Johnson and Jim Ham-mar,
square off for election duel.
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Bethel Kibbutznik And Archaeologist igook Roittic
Prepare For Summer SPAN Projects Concrete Jungle's Living Hell
Portrayed By Autobiography come, the experience promises
to be unforgettable.
Jonathan will be spending the
summer studying current archeo-logical
excavations in Israel. His
first few weeks in the country will
be spent at the Hebrew University
at Jerusalem conducting research
on archaeology and ancient history.
While in Israel, he also hopes to
visit several archaeological sites to
gain a first-hand appreciation of
the work being carried on.
The highlight of the summer,
however, will be the three weeks
in July and August that he will
spend as a volunteer on the
Archaeological Expedition to Tell
Arad. The tell, which is located
west of the Dead Sea in the
northern Negev, has already
been partially excavated.
Of particular interest to Biblical
scholars is the discovery at Arad
of a temple with a Holy of Holies
and the appearance for the first
time outside of the Biblical record
of the term, "House of Jehovah."
Jonathan's research paper will deal
with a specific topic in ancient
history as it relates to the exca-vation
at Tell Arad.
In addition to the eight weeks
in Israel, Mark a n d Jonathan
plan to travel for several weeks
in Europe and the Middle East.
Leaving the Twin Cities on May
28th, they will spend three weeks
getting to Israel, stopping en
route in France, Switzerland,
Austria, Italy, Egypt, Lebanon,
Syria, and Jordan. Leaving Is-rael
in August, they will stop in
Turkey, Greece and England be-fore
returning home September
1st.
Approximately one-half of the
SPANner's expenses are covered
by a SPAN scholarship. The SPAN-ner
is assisted further by contri-butions
from his own college or
university. Proceeds from Bethel's
annual Koffee Kup game, Friday
March 17, between the Student
Senate and the faculty will go to
the Bethel SPANners.
Although presently experiencing
the winter blasts like all other
Bethelites, Jonathan L. Larson and
Mark Watkins often find their
thoughts carrying them to Israel,
where they'll be carrying out
private study in the dry heat
of the Palestinian summer. While
the actual study projects will
be carried out this summer,
preparations are currently under-way.
For the two students Saturday
is SPAN day. If it isn't Hebrew,
it's Hebrew and SPAN meetings!
The SPAN experience requires
preparation so that the summer's
project will be of maximum value
to the participating students. For
the Israel group, preparation in-cludes
Hebrew lessons and three
thousand pages of readings which
pertain to the country to be visit-ed
and/or which pertain to the
project which is to be undertaken.
Common among all SPAN groups is
the necessity to acquaint oneself
with specific aspects of American
policy and national philosophy.
In addition, each SPANner is
responsible for making h i s
own travel arrangements as well
as the plans for carrying out
his project. Even before the
SPANner has stepped into the
plane for his transatlantic flight
he has learned a great deal about
the country to be visited, his
project area, and his own capaci-ties
and shortcomings.
And what of the summer ex-periences?
Mark will be spending approx-imately
five weeks in a kibbutz in
the northern Galilee region of Is-rael.
While there he will be en-gaged
in a study of aspects of the
community spirit of the kibbutz
society. During this stay he will
endeavor to become immersed in
the life style of the community.
This attempt to become a full
fledged kibbutznik will be in itself
a full time job.
While endeavoring to prepare
himself for his stay in the kib-butz,
by reading material on the
kibbutz social structures and life
style, Mark is anticipating pos-sible
problems. Strangeness in
the areas of community struc-ture,
personal life philosophies,
life styles and language must be
confronted. Whatever the out-by
Art Blessing
MANCHILD IN THE PROMISED LAND by
Claude Brown, published by the Macmillan,
Co., 1965, 415 pp.; $5.95, (also available in
paperback—NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY, 95c)
MANCHILD IN THE PROMISED
LAND is the most astonishing and
frightening autobiography I have
ever read. The author, Claude
Brown, now in his late twenties,
grew up in the concrete jungle of
New York's Harlem. In vivid,
shocking terms he describes the
living hell which he endured
throughout his childhood and ado-lescent
years.
F o r those of us unaquainted
with ghetto life, the story unfolds
in a manner charged with horror,
shock, and disbelief—that human
beings can survive in an atmo-sphere
such as this. We receive a
first-hand account of street gang
life from childhood through to the
adult years.
Claude Brown was a member of
the Harlem Buccaneers at nine
years of age, busily engaged in
fighting and stealing. The next
year he had his first sexual inter-course.
At eleven he was sent to
Wiltwyck School for "emotionally
disturbed and deprived" boys for
two years. At thirteen he received
a bullet wound in an attempted
theft. At fourteen he was sent to
Warwick Reform School for the
first of three long stays.
"Pot" (marijuana) became his
favorite smoke. He became a very
successful narcotics "pusher," and
eventually suffered the anguish of
seeing his own brother, "Pimp"
(his real name) become enslaved
to "H" (heroin).
Future social workers, youth
workers, and ministers will gain
valuable insight into ghetto life
and many other social problems
from this book. The problems of
Negro self-hatred and the socially-conditioned
inferiority complex are
also revealed in this account.
The book's dust jacket states
that "the real hero of this book is
Harlem. No other book has so
forcefully and honestly document-ed
life in Harlem .. . has so rich-ly
and candidly portrayed the in-credibly
complex society of this
physical and spiritual ghetto: the
children, young people, hardwork-ing
parents, the hustlers, drug run-ners,
prostitutes, and numbers run-ners;
the police, the action—sights,
sounds, rhythms—of the street; the
violence, sex, humor, the language
of people outside the law and legi-timate
society. And throughout this
all, how it was for a black boy to
come up on these streets, to keep
landing on his feet, to become a
man—and, above all, to keep his
sanity, his dignity, his humanity."
In one sense this story has a
happy ending, for Brown graduated
from Howard University in 1965
and went on to law school. A few
compassionate and understanding
people, a few kind words, and a
few encouraging nudges helped
him to rise above self-hatred and
to break away from some of his
environmental chains.
I highly recommend this book to
all. with the qualification that you
do not begin it shortly before an
exam or paper is due — I recently
loaned my copy to a friend who
stayed up most of the night to
finish it.
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Having run the gamut of collegiate athletics for nearly
a semester and a half, perhaps a diversion in subject matter
would be refreshing. Cleveland Grant's films on Alaska and
Africa, shown here Tuesday, suggest a topic worthy if provid-ing
such diversion.
Jon Larson, Clarion editor, grew up in Assam, Asia's
"Little Africa," a veritable haven for abundant wildlife of
all kinds. Hunting in both the thick growth and burned out
clearings of tropical grassland, Jon has pitted wits with a
variety of big game animals. He has killed a 600 pound sambar
(a huge Asian deer) and hunted wild pig and elephant. None can
compare with the tiger hunt, however.
It would be a mistake to compare this type of tiger hunt-ing
with that practiced by "big game" hunters who often have
to do nothing but shoot the game. This method may produce
trophies but cannot produce the thrill of a real tiger hunt.
There is a real art involved in hunting the big cats.
Word reached the mission outpost of a tiger kill, a domestic
water buffalo, some twelve or thirteen miles distant. Jon and
his father, after erecting a blind in the elephant grass stationed
themselves on the platform with their rifles. Men and cattle
retreated to the villages as the sun began to set.
With the coming of night, the birds became quite and a
very intensive silence hung over the jungle. The insidious sound
of rats chewing on grass roots along with other night sounds,
built excitement. Soon after sunset they heard the big cat
crashing through the thick growth in the distance. Then, about
200 yards away, it stopped and all was quiet once again.
This was a crucial period as the slightest noise or move-ment
would probably frighten the wary tiger away from the
kill. After what seemed like an eternity, the tiger moved
straight in to his kill. They waited until they heard the tiger be-gin
his violent crunching on the dead buffalo. Then Dana Lar-son
turned the light on the tiger, and both fired simultaneously.
The beast roared, wheeled and ran into the jungle.
In the morning both Larsons, accompanied by 15 or 20
wary natives, began tracking the tiger. They found where it
had lost large quantities of blood, and tracked it into a thicket.
Scared up, the tiger ran almost another mile before it died
from loss of blood.
The nine foot skin graced the interior of the CLARION of-fice
for several weeks and provoked numerous discussions on
the techniques of tiger hunting.
The number of students responding to the invitation of
Monday's chapel speaker undoubtedly makes this account from
the Assam Mission field directly relevant to many of the
Bethel students reading this column. Perhaps this account can
be of practical significance to them.
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by Tom Stocking
Ten letter winners from last
year's very successful squad, and a
host of promising newcomers com-prise
Coach Gene Glader's 1967
track team. Coach Glader predicts
that this team should be better than
last year's N.A.I.A. District 13 run-ner-
up, but warns that the com-petition
will be improved, espec-ially
since the M.I.A.C. schools
have abandoned spring football
practice.
Important events on this year's
schedule are the Easter Vacation
tour of Kansas and Iowa, the Carle-ton
Relays, the Bethel Relays, the
Bethel Invitational, the Macalester
Invitational, and the Northland
Invitational. During the vacation
trip Bethel will have four meets,
one of which is against Bethel of
Newton, Kansas. This year's Bethel
Relays field is made up of the
Bethel will, again this year be
represented by a small but deter-mined
group of golfers. Golf is a
sport which has been somewhat
unstable in past years but this year
the team is looking forward to a
good season with a new coach,
three returning junior lettermen,
three returning sophomores and at
least one new player.
The team is privileged to have
Mr. J. Daniel Baumann from the
seminary as coach this year. Mr.
Baumann was captain of his col-lege
team at Wheaton in his senior
year there and has shown a real
interest in the team this year at
Bethel. As a team we look forward
to working and playing with him.
Dave Livingston, Rick Peterson,
and Jim Spurgeon return as juniors
this year to form the nucleus of
the team. Dave is probably the
longest hitter in the group and has
the ability to score well. Rick, al-though
somewhat unorthodox in
form, is a good consistent player.
Jim is somewhat erratic at times
by Wally Borner
Frankson and 2nd New con-tinued
their winning ways by tak-ing
3rd Old 64-40, and Phelps 67-
58, respectively. Balanced scoring
was the order for the day with
Frankson's Doug Carlson adding
19 points. Dave C. Anderson was
high gunner for 3rd Old with 12.
Dale Saxon and Vaughn Ekbom
pumped in 16 a piece for 2nd New
as they pulled out a seesaw battle
with Phelps. Tom Hulst and John
Carmean each sunk 22 in the los-ing
cause.
After a close first half, Pit pul-led
ahead to take 1st floor 62-46.
Craig Carmean hit 17 to lead Pit
scoring. Dave Pearson muffed a
free throw in the waning minutes
to remain the only Pit man out
of double figures. Jon Christian
and Dick Schultz paced the 1st
floor with 11. Jon Krause and Hal
Shaver hit 22 and 19 to lead As-bury
over 3rd New 64-54. Tim Dan-iels
added 24 points to raise his
season average for 3rd New to 18.
"B" League action was a con-trast
from exciting forfeits to a
one point win. Pit won three games
by accepting a forfeit from Asbury,
topping 1st floor 37-27, and tip-ping
3rd New 51-50. It was another
bloody game for Edgren's top
Thursday, March 16, 1967
same M.I.A.C. schools, Augsburg,
Concordia, Gustavus, Hamline, and
St. John's, that the Royals defeated
in last season's Relays.
Last year's sprinters, Jim Ham-mar,
Oliver Skurdahl, and Dave
Moss all return, and the presence
of Dave Pound adds more strength
to the group. Co-captain Dave Dahl-berg
is the leading returning 440
yard dash man with 52.05 to his
credit last year. Hammar, last
year's top point getter and most
valuable man, turned in the best
100 yard dash with a 10 flat, and
Moss the leading the 220 at 22.6.
No letter winner will return in
the half mile, but Edgar Peterman,
Ron Stone, Barry Garrison, Ron
Berggren, and Ron Stoez are all ca-pable
runners. Cross country stars
Steve Johnson, Dick Olson, a n d
Wally Borner are the leading can-didates
in the one and two mile.
but has played some good rounds.
These three are all quite closely
matched in scoring ability.
Dave Anderson, a sophomore will
also be back again this year. Dave
did have some putting trouble last
year but was a real asset to the
team. Cal Harfst is the only re-turning
lefthander but scores well
from that side. Jerry Loomis, an-other
sophomore completes a good
list of returnees. John Raske, a
senior will be out for the first
time this year but should make a
real contribution to the team.
The schedule is not quite com-plete
as of this time, but it is
hoped that 8-10 matches and tour-naments
can be scheduled. Any
students who would be interested
in coming out should contact Jim
Spurgeon, P.O. 378, Mr. Bauman,
or any of the members named a-bove.
We hope to be out soon
after Spring vacation and would
welcome any freshman or upper-classmen
who would like to play.
flight boys, but this time it was
Larry Peterson who was clawed by
Pit star Leonard Sammons, instead
of yours truly, who finished the
previous game looking like Henry
Cooper. Peterson led scoring with
20 and Tom Blomstrand had 18
for the Basement boys.
Phelps dropped two games, the
first with only four men to 3rd
Old 50-43. Mary Johnson had 21
points and Gaylord Anderson luck-ed
out with 15 for the winners.
The second game saw them losing
to 2nd New by a score of 70-59.
Rog Kingsley's 18 first half points
kept them in the ball game but
they eventually succumbed to the
power of Gary Hasselblad and Jim
Lindberg who scored 32 and 25
points. Lynn Bergfalk again came
up with a good performance and
scored 23 for Phelps.
Frakson and Asbury lead the
league in forfeits. Each gave a
game to 3rd New and Frankson al-so
forfeited to 3rd Old.
In the "A" League, the faculty
is running away with forfeit hon-ors,
rarely having anyone brave
enough to show up. The Seminary
had the week off, but have been
disproving Dr. Jim Johnson's the-ory
that nice guys never win. The
Sem is having a losing season.
Olson once did a 4.31 mile in High
School which is just 9.7 seconds
off of the Bethel record.
The dynamic duo of the hurdles,
Andy Lehman and Bill Malyon,
both return, and a third splendid
hurdler, Craig Peterson, could
make this the team's strongest ev-ent.
Coach Glader anticipates that
the added competition will spur
the hurdlers on to increased record
breaking.
The field events are strong again
this year. Hammar, who holds the
record in both events, returns in
the broad jump and triple jump.
Sophomore Dave Pearson, who set
a new mark with a 6 foot leap
last year, holds forth in the high
jump, and is ably backed up by
Larry Peterson. Ron Pederson,
Marvin Johnson, and Fred Swed-berg
when his ankle heals make
up a talented weight corps, and
Bob McDonald, the javelin record
holder is back again. Co-captain
Ron Bergman hopes to improve on
last year's record 13 foot pole
vault, and freshman Bob Olsen is
developing into a promising pole
vaulter, broad jumper, and shot
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Returnees Bolster Golf Outlook;
Practice Begins After Vacation
Frankson Holds 1st In I-M Action,
Forfiets Plague 13' League Play
Tracksters Open Promising Season;
Hammar Heads Returning Veterans